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Topic: Are you losing in any TV shows you've been following? (Read 2108 times)

Maybe it's me, lots of new stuff has been going on involving my TV; downloading watching movies, Hulu and Fancast, Wii-ing it up with the wife - so few shows have seemed to make into our schedule except the really strong ones we like, House, Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, Monk, Psych, occasionally American Idol, wife swap and Big Love is something my wife follows.

But I gave up 24 (although I know I can catch any episode online) I just lost interest and there are just so many hours in the day. If I chose to plant my butt on the couch and stuff my face with artichoke dip, I bet I could watch them all - but I do finding myself dropping some shows that I never missed, Amazing Race, and a few HBO shows don't catch my attention as they did in years past.

Waiting on Dexter and Weeds, those I'll be around for but my programming list has sure changed and I guess it is a time factor, but as much as I liked 24, I put in the same box with Prison Break (which is a show I'll never understand made it more than one season) the worse of the bunch is HEROES - I loved the show, but it got so complicated bouncing from place to all around time - I just couldn't follow it all without rewatching some parts.

I still miss Jericho, Surface, and couldn't care less about unmarried Gary and new or old Christine. Strangely, I know 2.5 men is funny and a hit, probably going to end soon cuase the kid had grown up so fast - but I never watched more than a few episodes. Somethings (like Battlestar Gallactica, The new Dr. Who, and stargate) I hope to catch all these in syndication.

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i have given up the unit and sarah conner. i figure i can pick up the DVDs later and catch up.

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I only gave up one. It's called television. Gave it up about the time pay tv came out. Don't miss it one bit.

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

I know I have mentioned these two sites in other posts, but for anyone "giving up on TV" and I know a few people who have - typical cable and Internet combo around here is around $160 a month (that's tossing a premium channel in) and the shows I tend to watch on the pay channels are series, a few from HBO and a few from Showtime - there are plenty of ways to see these on the net for free - but as for all regular broadcast shows, you have:

www.hulu.com - who advertizes big on TV these days, only 15 to 30 second commercial breaks at regular break intervals and

www.fancast.com - which uses Hulu's meadia player and also has many movies to choose from.

Both services offer really good fullscreen streaming shows, as recent as this weeks programs, hundreds of current and old time TV shows all on your computer and all free.

My point, TV can be something on your own schedule today and no real cable TV or digital boxes for it - in theory, you can just pay for your highspeed connection (hope you and others have highspeed of one type or another) and choose what you want, when you want it.

We live in the ENTERTAINMENT AGE, the digital age and communication ages are behnd us, they are so a part of the everyday life that we don't think of them as outstanding any more. Having, streaming everything for your computer, TV, portable devices ALL makes watching programming fun and on your own terms.

Honestly, as much as I love this HDTV, we spend as much time watching web content on it than hi-def content. A little creative searching and anything is available and free when you want it is probably as good as it may get for a long time to come.

Honestly, the change in how media is distributed change dramatically when the Writer's Strike occured. TV stations all of a sudden had the web to place their shows as well - and I'm wondering still how that "limited commercial interuptions" that lead to about 2 minutes of commercials in a one hour show pays any bills - but somehow it is, at least for now. I have a feeling that commercial TV may find that web-casting all their programs may be a lost-leader and they'll take a whooping in the long run, although the web is here to stay, until the next BIG THING comes along which will knock the web back a notch or two.

So Iddee, this post may have not interested you, but someone may read it, check out those two sites and see that you really may not need a Digital Video Recorder and other gadgets just so you can watch your favorite primetime show at 2 in the morning - it may not be for everyone, but it surely is a great feature on the web that should at least be checked out. I just finished rewatching the latest Southpark episode, dealing with the ecconomic crisis as only Southpark can do - very funny episode, no one does parody better than they do - IMHO.

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